May 19, 2017Confirmed
BBC Reporter's Twin Brother Cracked HSBC's Voice ID Authentication
Rogue: Caused harmAI loose in the worldInjectionDERIVED
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HSBC’s voice recognition authentication system was fooled after seven repeated attempts by a BBC reporter's twin brother who mimicked his voice to access his bank account.
What this means for youVoice login can be fooled by someone imitating your voice, so do not rely on it alone for banking. At work, treat voice confirmation as one check among several, and in government, bank and agency rules should require a second factor.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/428
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
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